New AtomoSynth MochikaXL v2.2 "Dark side"

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"Mochika XL version 2.2
Analog synthesizer with 8 steps analog sequencer, midi syncable.

Let's make some serious noise!!!

this machine is great for live performance and improvisation for creating insane effect loops, acid basslines or crazy random rhythms.
Make noise - experimental music, change the sound in real time by tweeking the knobs on stage or in studio.

Connect it to your favorite effects (delay, flange, etc, etc)and create a wide sort of rhytm textures and soundscapes.
Sync it to any midi device like a drumbox midi sequencer or computer and play live.
Create random sonic sequences and blow minds with this beautiful lighted analog sequencer synth box!!!.

Now built like a tank!!! in a rugged black metal case with all switchers and potentiometers fixed to the case. if you break it... you've got an anger problem!"

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Sub Phatty Audio Demos by Moog Music

"The Sub Phatty analog synthesizer is a 25 full-size key, 31 knob production instrument that melds the soul and functionality of vintage analog synthesizers with a host of new and unique sound design tools. Building on the tradition of Moog’s highly successful Phatty family, the Sub Phatty grinds and screams with a uniquely aggressive voice — making it the new standard for synth bass, analog percussion, and a wide range of sound design applications

This set contains 15 sounds, total time: 9.18"

NAMM 2013: KORG Mini MS20 Rumors

Rumors are this is real and will run 600 Euros which currently translates to $798. It will be smaller and feature mini 1/8" jacks instead of 1/4" along with MIDI and USB-MIDI. Ships in February. We'll see...

Follow-up to New MS20 & KingKORG Analog Synths Coming from KORG?

1979 Strider Systems Inc. DCS II Ad

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"Strider Systems Inc. DCS II "A New Generation of Synthesizers" four page brochure from 1979."

TauCeti Minimal EDrum Mangling

Published on Jan 21, 2013 Enrico Cosimi·106 videos

"Roland TR-808 plays a pattern into Echophon for time driven repeats; same pattern was previously loaded into (synced) Phonogene for pattern mangling and scrambling. Echophon act as a pitch transposer on repetitions."

Oberheim SEM PatchPanel first test + usermanual

Published on Jan 21, 2013 heodesalciphron·80 videos

http://www.dendrobate-magnetique.org/synth/article32/oberheim-sem-patchpanel

QUASIMIDI POLYMORPH

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Roland JX10 SN 684652 with Colin Fraser Sysex Update

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"Like many JX10 owners without a PG800 programmer I was disappointed to find that Roland had made a complete arse of the midi implementation - there is no way to edit sounds via midi.
So I got hold of the service manual and the datasheet for the 6303 processor used in the assigner board, and set about dis-assembling the firmware, in the hope of finding the 'bug' that stopped SysEx sound edits working.

In the process I learned a lot about how the JX works, how the PG800 works, and how NOT to write firmware for a synthesizer. The Roland software engineers must have either been under real pressure to get the job finished, or they simply got the office cleaner to write it, because it is a poorly structured, badly written mess.

When I found the code for SysEx reception there was only a slight hint that they had planned to implement editing via midi, no 'broken' code for it, but with a little thought, I found a way to hack it in there myself..."

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Roland Jupiter 6 Analogue Synthesiser

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Plan B Model 13 Dual Timbral Gate

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"The Model 13 is an enhanced derivative of the infamous Buchla 292 Low Pass Gate.

Like all Lowpass gates, at the heart of the Dual Timbral Gate is a device known as a Vactrol -- a small electro-optical coupler which opens the filter with it's characteristic ringing qualitiy. As sonically compelling as they are, Vactrols however are not perfect. While some of their anomalies are desirable (ringing for instance), others are not. Long story short - Vactrols leak. Not vactrol juice, but sound passed through them, even when you're telling them to be quiet. While it can't be eliminated without jeopardizing the ring, it can be improved upon and the Model 13 does just that, decreasing the nominal leakage associated with other LPGs by a factor of 10, from 3mv to just a under one third of a mv...barely audible even in at very high volumes.

Each gate is fitted with an offset knob which serves two functions: If no VC is applied, they act as manual level controls. Once a VC is patched they act as low threshold offsets, as the gate will not close below the level set on the pot. A three position switch selects the modes of operation: Amplitude only (no filtering), LowPass (high filtering) or Both (a combination of Amplitude and Lowpass settings). The M13 has been further enhanced by a dedicated crossfading sum output, allowing for a sonic mixtures of the information passed through both. One application for this output being when both gates are set to amplitude mode, your DTG becomes a handy 2 in, 1 out mixer!"